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And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. Im savannah guthrie, and it is an anxious morning for folks up and down the east coast. Hurricane sandy strengthened over the night. Want to give you the information we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane with wind speeds of 85 Miles Per Hour. Its located about 285 miles east of cape hatteras, North Carolina. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Had taking unprecedente...

This is an hour. We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. I have a couple of things to mention, and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel, which we are thrilled to hear from. The first thing is i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are excited about it here on the podium. The other thing, i think it is reall...

We are going to go ahead and get started. I really want to thank you folks are coming. For coming. This is terrific. Welcome to the 2017 state of the states. I am scott patterson, director of the National Governors association. Have a few things to mention and then i will introduce our very distinguished panel. The first thing, i want to introduce our new nga logo. We are very excited about it. The other thing i want to tell folks about, because i think it is really critical to know, right after...

We are starting to see some success with the Iraqi Government in reducing payments to iraqi citizens who were living in isil controlled area. There is a downside to that. When they do that, that alley and eights them further from the Central Government in baghdad. To me, the important aspect here and the important theme would be to sustain the pressure. One of the sources that has been surprisingly consequential is blackmarket antiquity sales from the looting that has occurred. Its my understand...

A huge challenge in iraq. We have succeeded in combating daesh on the ground. The area we have liberated so far is more than half of what was occupied by daesh before. Now we have almost all areas liberated from daesh apart from two areas. We intend this year to make it the final year and the last year for the existing of daesh in iraq. This reflecting of the area which is occupied by de daesh and this is a huge moment as oil has dropped in price. It is a huge drop in two years in a country wher...

When they do that it alienates potentially the Central Government in baghdad but to me the important aspect here and the important theme would be to sustain the pressure. One of the sources that has been surprisingly consequential is blackmarket antiquities sales for the looting. It is my understanding that the u. S. Has sanctions it can impose on anyone who imports antiquities stolen by isis but it doesnt have separate abilities to sanction individuals who purchase looted syrian antiquities. Wo...

The resolution 1929 of 2010 and about half of those firings were going on during the negotiations which of course were separate from the actual negotiations. After 35 years i found the most capable force to be its soundness and accuracy. It has all the ranges covered that can lead to the national targets. In the longterm, i expect they will invest some of the money into improving the rest of their military capabilities. What is the longterm . In other words, how many years is longterm . Five yea...

Directors new and old business. No hands waving, next item. Item 5 is Public Comment which is an opportunity for member s of the public to address the board on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have mr. Robert, followed by mr. Finebaum mr. Robert . Good morning, my name is Steve Roberts and im a member of the Rail Passenger association of california, a Public Transportation advocacy group. I thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Because of the benefits of reduce...

Derivative. So we spend 668,000 but it is as close as we have but then we have a modified Design Excellence with moderate at a cost of 900,000 but the two under construction now at one point a Million Dollars per desk . That is 191 million to build something that 154 million. How you explain that . By the way 154 million if you do that mathis 88 desks how do we afford to do that a round of worldwide is in a massive job of the expense can they go to personnel guard forces . Why so much expense . ...

For them to go fix their problem. Im an advocate for industry upping their game having the capability to tell the government something is going on. These are areas i like to really talk about what is going on in this domain and when you look at it, in the internet, our nation is the one that created the internet. We were the first to do this. We ought to be the first to secure it. Thank you, chairman. Thank you very much, general. Mr. Clarke. Good morning, chairman mccain, Ranking Member reed, m...